2008: Hills followed up an impressive season
with Big Sky Conference Player of the Year accolades, becoming just
the fifth Eagle to ever be named POY. She also laid claim to four
Big Sky Player of the Week awards, marking the first time an Eagle
has done so four times in one campaign since Kim Exner achieved the
feat in 1998. In addition, Hills was named a CVU.com Top Performer
of the Week three times and earned Stellar Spiker honorable mention
accolades from that organization following her outstanding
campaign. Her kills-per-set average of 4.58 ranked her eighth among
NCAA Division I players, first among Big Sky players, and was the
third-best in school history. She helped the Eagles as a team tally
13.82 kps, the 27th-best average nationally and tops in the Big
Sky. Hills was named to the All-Hilton Classic and All-Idaho
Volleyball Classic teams. In a 3-1 win over Idaho State on Oct. 23,
she recorded 30 kills to achieve a 30-kill match for the second
time in her career (her previous 30-kill performance also came
against the Bengals, on Sept. 15, 2007). Hills now owns two of the
three 30-kill matches in Eastern Washington history (the school
record of 34 was set by Exner on Sept. 6, 1996). The kill total was
also the highest by any Division I player in 2008 in a match less
than five sets long. In a 3-1 win over Big Sky champion Portland
State on Oct. 10, Hills recorded just the 18th 20-20 performance in
EWU annals, tallying 20 kills and 21 digs. She was just the eighth
Eagle to do so in a match fewer than five sets long. In a 3-1 road
win over Sacramento State in the regular-season finale, a victory
that clinched for Eastern the Big Sky’s regular-season title,
Hills entered herself into the prestigious 1,000-kill club. Her
milestone putaway earned EWU a 4-0 lead in the second set. In that
match, she tallied 25 kills and hit .352 (25-6-54). She is now one
of only eight Eagles to achieve that feat and will enter her senior
season sixth on the all-time kills list in EWU history with 1,053.
At the Big Sky Championship, she averaged 4.86 kps and 2.71 dps and
earned All-Championship honors. Her current career kps average of
3.99 places her second on that record list.

2007: Hills had an outstanding season for the
Eagles and was rewarded for her efforts with an appointment to the
All-Big Sky Conference first team. Her 4.38 kills per set average
was not only the third-highest among Big Sky Conference players and
70th-best nationally, but also placed her fifth in Eastern
Washington annals. Her total number of kills (491) is fourth
all-time. Additionally, Hills was second on the squad with 2.54
digs and 0.21 service aces per set. She led the Eagles in kills in
26-of-30 matches and posted 20+ kill totals 11 times, including in
seven straight matches from Oct. 13-Nov. 3. Hills also contributed
double-digit dig totals 14 times and set her then-career high in
that category with 19 against Montana and Montana State on Oct. 25
and 27, respectively. The outside hitter got her season off to an
impressive start, being named to the all-tournament team at each of
the three pre-conference tournaments Eastern Washington
participated in, the Sheraton Four Points Wildcat Classic, the
PowerAde/Asics Classic and the Waikiki Beach Marriott Volleyball
Classic. In a 3-1 win over Idaho State on Sept. 15, she came within
four of the school record for kills with 30 (Kim Exner had 34
versus Portland on Sept. 6, 1996). She had 20 putaways in a
three-set contest with Sacramento State, the most in three sets
since Lizzy Mellor had 21 in a sweep of Gonzaga on Oct. 18, 2005.
Hills earned Co-Big Sky Player of the Week accolades on Oct. 22
after leading the Eagles to a pair of 3-1 road wins over Idaho
State and Weber State. On Oct. 25, in Eastern Washington’s
incredible 30-26, 35-37, 40-38, 22-30, 17-15 win over Montana in
the second-highest scoring match in NCAA Division I history, she
had two of EWU’s biggest kills of the season, turning around
a match point and a 14-13 deficit in the fifth set into a 16-15
advantage with a pair of putaways.

2006: Hills finished the season with a .270
hitting percentage, the fourth-highest on the team, and averaged
1.60 kills per set, good for fifth-best on the squad. In an
early-season four-set win over Texas-San Antonio, she contributed
14 kills, 13 digs and three service aces. All three totals would be
season highs for Hills. She also hit .353 in that contest. That
match allowed her to become one of just 45 Big Sky players in 2006
to attain a double-double. She had seven kills in a 3-0 sweep of
Manhattan and tallied 13 in a sweep of St. Francis (N.Y.) two days
later.

High School: Hills was selected by Sports B.C. as
the High School Female Athlete of the Year in volleyball for the
province of British Columbia. In 2006, she was named the MVP of the
Provincial Volleyball Championships, as she led her team to a
silver medal finish. She was a member of the British Columbia
Provincial Team and the Quesnel Cobras club volleyball program. Her
parents are Rock and Laura Hills, and she is a communications
major.